script used to demonstrate the problem

m4-problem.sh (text/plain), 653 bytes, created by Rabbe Fogelholm on 2007-10-29 10:35:04 UTC

#!/bin/bash

export EPREFIX=`pwd`

export PATH="$EPREFIX/usr/bin:$EPREFIX/bin:$EPREFIX/tmp/usr/bin:$EPREFIX/tmp/bin:$PATH"

./bootstrap-prefix.sh $EPREFIX tree
./bootstrap-prefix.sh $EPREFIX/tmp wget
./bootstrap-prefix.sh $EPREFIX/tmp python
./bootstrap-prefix.sh $EPREFIX portage

export LDFLAGS="\
  -L${EPREFIX}/usr/lib64 \
  -Wl,-rpath=${EPREFIX}/usr/lib64 \
  -L${EPREFIX}/usr/lib \
  -Wl,-rpath=${EPREFIX}/usr/lib \
  -L${EPREFIX}/lib64 \
  -Wl,-rpath=${EPREFIX}/lib64 \
  -L${EPREFIX}/lib \
  -Wl,-rpath=${EPREFIX}/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I${EPREFIX}/usr/include"
hash -r

emerge --oneshot sed
emerge --oneshot bash
emerge --oneshot --nodeps "m4"